Particularly on the two evenings of the 2th and 8th of the Lunar New Year, the New Year's lantern offering ceremonies of Giap Thin on the top of Ba Den mountain, Tay Ninh welcomed nearly 300.000 visitors. This is considered the largest lantern offering ceremony ever at the leading "pilgrimage holy land" in the South.
According to statistics from Sun World Ba Den Mountain Tourist Area, in the first 10 days of spring, more than 1 million Buddhists and tourists visited Ba Den Mountain to immerse themselves in meaningful activities during Maitreya Spring Festival and Spring Festival. Traditional Ba Den Mountain. In particular, the lantern offering ceremony held on weekend nights has attracted hundreds of thousands of visitors every night.
On the 8th alone, Tay Ninh attracted hundreds of thousands of tourists to Ba Den Mountain and attended the Supreme Lord's Great Ceremony at the Holy See - a leading holiday of the year for Cao Dai followers across the country. Among them, 148.000 visitors took the cable car to the top of Ba Den mountain and attended the lantern offering ceremony "A peaceful new spring, a year of joy". In particular, on the full moon day of the first lunar month, the great lantern offering ceremony with sacred rituals to pray for a peaceful and prosperous New Year promises to be the biggest lantern offering ceremony in the early spring at Ba Mountain.
In Buddhist culture, each lit flower lantern means Buddhists send a good, peaceful thought to themselves and to everyone. This beautiful and sacred Buddhist ritual is held on major holidays at the top of Ba Den mountain such as Ba Mountain Spring Festival, Via Linh Son Thanh Mau Ceremony, Buddha's Birthday, Vu Lan Ceremony...
The special thing is that here, each visitor will write their own wish and light their lantern, joining in the solemn atmosphere in the ceremony of passing the lantern, reciting Buddha's name and releasing the lantern on the water around the Buddhist pillar. Bat Nha.
“Every year my family makes a pilgrimage to Ba Pagoda at the beginning of the new year. Now there is a habit of going up the mountain to attend the lantern offering ceremony, praying for peace, luck, and happiness. This is truly an extremely meaningful and sacred experience in the early days of spring," said Ms. Bui Xuan, a tourist in Ho Chi Minh City.
During the Maitreya Spring Festival, which lasts in January, on all weekend nights, when reaching Ba Den peak, visitors will be immersed in the space of tens of thousands of sparkling lanterns in the square at the foot. Buddha statue of Tay Bo Da Son. After the ceremony, the lanterns will be transformed with the hope that the wishes sent will come true.
Lantern offering is a special ritual on the top of Ba Den mountain. For those who do not have the opportunity to go to the top of the mountain on weekend evenings, lanterns have also been prepared by Sun World Ba Den Mountain tourist area for visitors to write their wishes and attach them to the "Lotus Wish". post". These wishes will then be prayed by Sun World Ba Den Mountain resort staff on behalf of visitors at lantern offering ceremonies on weekend evenings.
Besides the lantern offering ritual, many unique cultural and artistic activities celebrating Maitreya Spring create a jubilant spring atmosphere for the highest mountain in the South that lasts throughout January.
Intangible cultural heritages are vividly recreated here such as Chhay-dam drum dance, Khmer dance, five-syllable music performance... creating a cultural specialty for the top of Ba Den mountain in the early spring.
In particular, Giap Thin spring is also the first time visitors can worship the large sandstone statue of Bodhisattva Maitreya. world on top of Ba Den mountain. With a height of 36m and composed of 6,688 sandstone stones, the Maitreya Bodhisattva statue is an elaborate masterpiece of Buddhist architecture, worthy of being a rare wonder.
An experience that many tourists especially enjoy is the water music show applying modern technology for the first time in Vietnam. The water music effects are sometimes quiet, leisurely, and sometimes explosive, created by 400 spray troughs creating overflow effects, 800 solenoid valves creating waterfalls, 360 pumps with many flexible adjustment capacity ranges, and 290 different types of nozzles use the world's leading advanced spray technology to create a dancing effect like a real actor performing.
With the magical combination of music, light, laser and water, visitors can admire the magical aura emanating from Maitreya Bodhisattva, uniquely shaped tableaus such as the Tay Thien sky, the five-colored clouds, lotus carpets, lucky coins, or the simple burlap sack that Bodhisattva Maitreya always carries on his shoulder.
Known as one of the most sacred mountains in the country, Ba Den Mountain welcomes millions of tourists to pilgrimage and worship during the early spring. Located halfway up the mountain, the more than 300-year-old Ba Pagoda system associated with the legend of Linh Son Holy Mother Bodhisattva is a solid spiritual fulcrum of the Southern people.
On the top of Ba Den Mountain, a magnificent spiritual complex with the statue of Ba Tay Bo Da Son Buddha representing Lovingkindness and Compassion, and the statue of Maitreya Bodhisattva representing Joy and Equanimity, has become a place for people to send Wishing for a peaceful, joyful new year and finding true happiness.
